Advertising device



- L. A; GOULD.

ADVERTISING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED AUG.27. 1921.

1,414,272, Patehted Apr. 25, 1922.

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UNITEQ srrss LESLIE AbGOULD, or snrnenro'nr, coivnnoricu'r.

ADVERTISING DEVICE.

Application .filed August 27; 1921. Serial mf eases.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Lnsmn A. GOULD, a

citizen of the United States, residing at provide means for producing electric flashes which appear to be coming from the mouth V of a bottle to attract attention to'the advertisements carried by the bottle or located adjacent thereto.

This invention also conslsts in certain other features of construction and III the combination and arrangement of the several parts, to be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and specifically pointed out in the appended claims.

The invention is shown in the accompanying drawing by a longitudinal sectional view,

parts being shown in elevation.

In this view 1 indicates a casing upon which a bottle 2, or an imitation thereof, rests. A pair of wires 3 pass through the bottle with their upper parts projecting well above the mouth of the bottle and their lower ends projecting from the bottom' of the These lower ends are bottle into the casing. connected by the conductors i with the terminals of an induction coil 5. The coil is electrically connected with a transformer 6 and this transformer is provided with the connections 7 whereby it may be connected with a source of electrical supply. Both the transformer and the coil are located in the casing. The wires within the bottle are insulated by passing through mica tubes 8 and the interior of the bottle is filled with colored wax or the like, as shown at 9. The parts of the wires 3 which extend above the bottle are slightly divergent with their ends curving outwardly, as shown at. 10.

When current is turned on the current will jump from one wire to the other to produce flashes and these flasheswill occur at intervals and at successively higher points on the Wires above the mouth of the bottle until,

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented they reach the curved ends of the wires.

The flashes will then start again at the mouth of the bottle so that the flashes will appear to be coming fromthe bottle. Ad-

vertising material can be placed :on the bottle and the casing or adjacent the bottle'so that the attention of passersby'will be drawn to.

the advertised inatter. 'The colored wax in j the bottle canbe made to represent liquids which are being advertised.

It is thought from the foregoing descriptron that the advantages and novel features of my invention will be readily apparent, a v V I desire it to be understoodthat I may make changes in the construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, provided that such changes fall within the scope of the appendedclaims.

What I claim is} V 1. A device of the class described'coinpris I ing a receptacle, wires passingthrough the v I same and. projecting above the mouth thereof,the parts of'the Wires within the receptacle beingv insulated from each other ,7 5 and those above the receptacle being spaced, J

apart to produce flashes by the current umping from one line to the other and a source of electrical supply connected with the lower partsof the wires,'said. flashes having'the appearance of coming out of the receptacle.

2. A device of the class described comprising a casing, a receptacle resting thereon, i pa1r ofwires passing through the receptacle I i with their upper portions projecting-well above the top of the same. the partsof the wires within the receptacle being insulated from each other, an induction coil within T o the casing connected with the lower ends of the wires, a transformer within the casing connected with the coil and means for connecting the transformer with a source of electrical supply, the portions of the wires above the casing being spaced apart to produce flasheswhich appear to 7 come out of the receptacle.

3. A device of the class described compris ing a casing, an induction coil therein, a

transformer connected with the coil, means 1' for connecting thetransformer with a source of electrical supply, a bottle supported upon the casing, a pa1r of wires passingthrough through themouth of the bottle and project- 7 ing above the same, said projecting portions being spaced apart with the space increasing upwardly and the upper ends of the Wires being curved away from each other so that flashes will be produced by the current jumping from one Wire to the other, saidflashes having the appearance of coming out of the 10 bottle.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

LESLIE A. GOULD. 

